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Outside my front window just now.
I was doing my morning meditations this morning. At the end I usually draw a tarot card for the day. My card (from the Vision Quest deck) today was the Shaman:
So I'm trying to relate what the little white book says about the card. It ends by saying:
"The Shaman merely reminds you of your spiritual heritage. He points to your source, the unnameable, the mystery of your existence, the power that created everything and absorbs you back into itself at the end of this life. Contemplate how to best spend your time".
Which does remind me how much time I waste! Am I really living my life well? As well as I possibly can? With this new medical thing coming up I am feeling like I am falling apart, cancer, radiation, heart rhythm problems, things inserted into me, things taken out of me. My body is not me. It is not even controlled by me. I am this thing that is riding in this body for this lifetime. And this ride will end someday. I need to take care of my vehicle as well as I can and I also need to start to get ready to get out of the car when it can't carry me any farther. It is interesting (and frightening) to get older - coming into a new phase of life. I don't feel "old" yet, but it is starting to be a time of beginning to let go of this body, to get ready for the next stage when I will let go totally.
Anyway - today - what shall I do with myself today? I need to make some jewelry - I have some orders. I'll probably do that most of the day. I feel like I should do something that I really enjoy though (my meditations tell me I should!) - like go on a photo spree. I haven't done that in a long while.
I got the chickens a block of treats that you put into a wire cage. I hung it in their coop this morning. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to eat it. I have been getting one egg each day so far - only Wings is laying. Though I see other chickens trying out arranging a nest and sitting in the nest boxes for a few minutes at a time during the day. I feed the eggs to the 2 grandboys. They are taking turns getting one a day. I am so looking forward to when we will be getting more so I can start making a real meal for everyone with them. Though I am using up our store bought eggs with Dave and me right now. It's not like we don't have enough eggs to eat...